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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was General Lestlie Groves's top intelligence officer in late 1943?
(a) General George Marshall.
(b) Major Robert Furman.
(c) Colonel John Wilson.
(d) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.

2. Who informed Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?
(a) General Lewis Strauss.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) General Richard Brennan.
(d) General Scott Miller.

3. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?
(a) November 1, 1914.
(b) December 11, 1910.
(c) April 22, 1904.
(d) May 22, 1908.

4. What was the population of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1943?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 30,000.

5. What does S.O.E. stand for?
(a) Special Ordinance Elective.
(b) Selective Operations Establishment.
(c) Secret Operations Entity.
(d) Special Operations Executive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

2. Who invited William Laurence to attend the test shot of the plutonium bomb?

3. With whom did Knut Haukelid spend the winter in the mountains of Norway after the Vemork attack?

4. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?

5. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?

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